Dr. Kush Agarwal

Kush is a Singaporean innovator, a technologist by training, a scientist by profession, and an entrepreneur by DNA, which stems from his early childhood involvement in the family pharmaceutical business. He has created technology business ventures from concept to launch and beyond within friends & family. To date, Kush has co-founded three Singapore based tech-startups through his inventions and is currently leading his A*STAR spin-off company – WaveScan Technologies, in the role of CEO. WaveScan is a deep-tech company developing the next generation of AI-powered microwave & millimeter-wave contactless, see-through, radar technology.

He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, an M.S. from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and a B.Tech. from the College of Engineering Roorkee India, all in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, specializing in component and system-level wireless interfaces. Kush has close to a decade of experience in the R&D & management of wireless technologies and has authored 25 refereed papers, book chapters, and six patent filings. He is a part of the editorial review committee of over two dozen journals affiliated to IEEE, IET, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Springer.

Kush is affiliated with AP, MTT, ComSoc, IoT, and RFID Societies as a Senior Member of IEEE. He has worked with the CGI Canada, A*STAR, NUS & NTU Singapore, and is actively involved in supporting and building the tech-startup ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific region. He firmly believes in teamwork and that, private-public entities will have to collectively work towards shared sustainable strategies, incentives, and a value system as we strive to transform human lives with disruptive technologies to improve the current state of the world and build a competitive, yet healthy & productive future for our younger generation.

Kush was a Member-At-Large on the 2019 IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee.